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Two hunters with a pending North Dakota record ram.
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North Dakota Hunter Tags Pending Record Bighorn with the Current Record-Holder by His Side

By Kris Millgate

A watercolor of a bighorn ram on a cliff.
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I Nearly Died Trying to Recover My Bighorn Ram, But I Couldn’t Leave Him on the Mountain

By Steve Coy with Larry Mueller

A blue illustration of bighorns.
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I Drew a Rare Desert Bighorn Tag, and Killed One of the Biggest Rams in the State

By Tim Kelly

A sheep hunter slips and falls as he decides he can't make it to the sheep.
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I Finally Drew a Bighorn Sheep Tag. I Was Too Out of Shape to Fill It

By John F. Lane, as told to Charles Elliott

Alex Robinson packs out sheep with one of the best hunting backpacks.
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The Best Hunting Backpacks, Chosen by the Editors

By The Editors

An illustration of a little bush plane in front of big mountains
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My Wife and I Crashed Our Plane While Sheep Hunting. It Was Worth It

By Aubrey Taylor, as told to Hiram Savage

A large herd of aoudad move across the Texas landscape.
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Texas Adds Aoudad to the List of Animals You Can Hunt from Helicopters

By Alice Jones Webb

A sheep hunter leaps across a waterfall high in the mountains.
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My Bush Plane Crashed. I Went Sheep Hunting Anyway

By Donald L. Jenkins

A bowhunter in white draws on a bighorn
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I Arrowed the World-Record Bighorn with a $25 Sheep Tag

By Ray Alt

A Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep stands atop a ridge.
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$1.3 Million Bighorn Sheep Tag Sets Record for Most Expensive Auction Tag Ever

By Dac Collins

An illustration of bighorn rams in Oregon.
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I Thought My Once-in-a-Lifetime Hunt Was a Bust. Then I Killed the Biggest Bighorn Ever Taken in Oregon

By Windell W. Winterbottom

Fred bear stone sheep
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Fred Bear Took His World-Record Stone Sheep with the ‘Best Shot I’ll Ever Make’

By Fred Bear, as told to Byron W. Dalrymple

A hunter in a wide-brimmed hat kneeling behind a gray desert bighorn.
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Carmichel in Arizona: How to Hunt an Inaccessible Desert Bighorn

By Jim Carmichel

A group of hunters with a bighorn ram.
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11-Year-Old Kid Becomes Youngest Hunter to Harvest a Bighorn Ram in Wyoming

By Bob McNally

An old photo of a hunting guide with a Dall sheep.
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The Invention of the Grand Slam Killed Sheep Hunting, According to Jack O’Connor

By Jack O'Connor

A pair of Dall sheep illustrated.
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Carmichel in Alaska: An Odd Way to Die on a Sheep Hunt

By Jim Carmichel

A hunter with a Rocky Mountain bighorn ewe.
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Most Hunters Will Never Get the Chance to Chase a Bighorn Ram, but What About Ewes?

By Christine Peterson

hunter with sheep head
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Can Sheep Hunting in the Yukon Survive Another Century?

By Alex Robinson

A bird hunter walks across the North Dakota prairie
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Why Do I Hunt? The Answer to Hunting’s Toughest Question

By Jim Zumbo

argali ram with hunters and mongolian flag
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Hunting Argali Sheep with a Crappy Scope, One Box of Ammo, and No Translator

By John B. Snow